Louis de Bernieres
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army. Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors...
Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny.
Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Physical Desc
xiv, 331 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisioś letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world -- from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito's Partisans through her journey to England and...
Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xviii, 459 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cochadebajo de los Gatos is populated by eccentrics--and hundreds of tame black jaguars that love chocolate. The eccentrics have carved a wackily sane society out of the wilderness, but a traveling inquisition known as the New Albigensian Crusade, loosed by the corrupt Cardinal Guzman, threatens to destroy it.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each of them trying to answer the question that fuels this sweeping novel: If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die,...
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
513 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh sisters — Christabel, Ottilie, Rosie and Sophie — grow up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. On one side, their neighbors are the proper Pendennis family, recently arrived from Baltimore, whose close-in-age boys — Sidney, Albert and Ashbridge — shake their father’s hand at breakfast and address him as “sir.” On the other side is the Pitt family: a “resolutely...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernieres that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in Notwithstanding stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels." "The...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While Captain Antonio Corelli, an Italian officer, and his soldiers are stationed on the idyllic island of Cephallonia, he falls in love with a beautiful girl and the land around him, but when the war reaches the island their love is tested.